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Video (33:41) with Databricks co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia presenting the changes in Apache Spark 2.0 and the general availability (GA) of Databricks Community Edition at Spark Summit 2016. Afterwards, Michael Armbrust demos some new features found in Spark 2.0 on Databricks Community EditionGo To Video

Apache Spark’s popularity as part of big data analytics solutions is exploding. Spark is an open-source data analytics cluster computing framework originally developed in the AMPLab at UC Berkeley. Spark fits into the Hadoop open-source community, building on top of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). However, Spark promises performance up to 100 times faster than Hadoop MapReduce for certain applications…and that’s why you should care!

Spark’s in-memory cluster computing is very well suited to machine learning algorithms. These Videos will give you a nice introduction to Spark, how it’s being used in business and why you should care…Watch Spark Videos…

DAY 2 | Spark Summit East 2016 took place last month in NYC. Here is the Day 2 Keynotes video. It begins with Reynold Xin – Chief Architect at Databricks Presenting Real-Time and Spark
It is followed by two other, very good presentations titled – ‘”Leveraging Spark, AWS, And Graph Analytics to Better Protect Customers” and “Data Profiling and Pipeline Processing with Spark – A Journey”’ (58min). Enjoy!

Spark Summit East 2016 took place last week in NYC. Here is the Day 1 Keynotes video. It begins with Matei Zaharia – MIT professor, Databricks co-founder and Creator of Spark – discussing the upcoming release of Spark 2.0.

It is followed by four other, very knowledgeable speakers discussing subjects like ‘Democratizing Spark,’ ‘Enterprise Spark’ and ‘Spark as an Analytics OS.’ (1Hr:12min). Enjoy! Watch Video

“Spark Summit Europe 2015” wrapped up yesterday in Amsterdam. Here’s a couple of the top videos from the last few days. Juliet Houghland, a Data Scientist from Cloudera talks about the client-side need/demand for PySpark, and Aaron Davidson from Databricks talks about some more recent problems he sees emerging. Watch Videos

WHY? Hear from Big Data experts on what is available in the industry today, what’s anticipated, and why they think SPARK is the next big thing for Big Data. What is SPARK? Why is it relevant? How does SPARK play into a more intelligent use of data? Read More